The Librarian

The librarian walked a dusty road.
Heading for the rodeo.

Her glasses on
The tip of her nose
And her hair curled in a bun.

She finally took a seat,
Barely taking the heat.

But in the mix 
Of all these things	
She was called out to the ring.

She climbed up on
The electronic bull
Hoping she could bare
Gravities great pull.

The bull tossed her,
And slung her to the dirt.
And forced the librarian
Back to her books.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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Bhat Avatar
May 17, 2014 at 10:46 AM
Beautiful!
Watson Avatar
May 13, 2014 at 12:43 PM
Loved the poem and the description of my ideal woman.
Toil Avatar
April 27, 2014 at 12:41 AM
I don't know if this actually happened or not but either way it is a beautiful metaphor of life. Yes, books and theory are very safe. But once you step out into the real world, you get jostled around. It is unavoidable. I love your vivid imagery! ...BH
Appleleaf Avatar
April 27, 2014 at 4:09 PM
I actually wrote this for my creative writing class in high school. We were given two random words and told to write a poem based on them. Mine were Librarian and Rodeo haha. I'm normally not very good at that kind of thing but I had fun with this one :)
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